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America's Fate: the Titanic's.. David Walker, U.S. Comptroller, gave a speech recently which was re-aired on C-Span this evening. It was the most important speech made in the last 5 years and will remain the most important speech for America's future for decades. America is on a path to depression and bankruptcy, and the politicians… Continue reading America's Fate: the Titanic's.

I Give Up …. The New York Times reports that Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon, collected $19.6 million in compensation last year, up 48 percent. The stock, meanwhile, fell 26 percent. Earnings dropped 5.5 percent. The firm's credit rating was downgraded. And 50,000 managers had their pensions frozen. The Board justified the pay packet, claiming… Continue reading I Give Up …

InformationWeek: 10 Hot Web Startups You Should Know About. Client Laszlo makes it onto the list – aong with Dreamfactory, 30boxes and usual suspects SixApart and SocialText. And some startup called ‘mashups’.  [Marc's Voice]

Catching up. I've been on blogging hiatus for a long time, but here's some updates as to what I've been doing. XTech, MacBook, Debian, Rails. [Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times]

U.S. lags in high-speed Internet. The U.S. has fallen to 12th in global ranking of high-speed Internet connections. We now lag behind many other industrialized countries in Europe and Asia, according to a recent survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that… [InfoWorld Tech Watch]

Pushing your skill set. Are you doing anything to keep up your skills? Some of you don't have a choice–especially if you're doing client work where each new job “forces” you to learn something new. But for those of us who–like me–are mostly working on our own stuff, we can get… a little lazy. The… Continue reading Pushing your skill set

Keeping Up.  This year, I started a more structured effort to keep up on the latest user experience research and new technologies. I consider keeping up one of the most important professional development activities I engage in. I was determined this year to do a better and most consisent job of it. It's evolved into… Continue reading Keeping Up

Monarchy. Joshua Micah Marshall: “It's not too soon to start calling this for what it is: the Bush administration's creeping monarchism…. The underlying idea is not so much that the president is above the law as that he is the law. He embodies it, you might say, even embodies the state itself. And thus what… Continue reading Monarchy

Why Bring Out The Iran Plan Now?. Seymour Hersh has a new article on the the plans to attack Iran. While I am not surprised by what Hersh reveals (and others echo – Wa. Post, Independent, Al Jazeera, AFP) in his article, the timing is more than interesting. The news that the outing of CIA… Continue reading Why Bring Out The Iran Plan Now?

Idea for 'Da Vinci Code' Was Not Stolen, Judge Says. A British judge ruled that Dan Brown did not steal the idea for his book, “The Da Vinci Code,” from an earlier work. By SARAH LYALL. [NYT > Home Page]